How did you think that title would finish?
Anyways, as i mentioned the other day I've got components we use internally for testing and i'll show you some of them, hopefully this will encourage more people to share their component packages with the rest of the Windows Embedded community.
I'm going to check with the lawyers and find out which components we can share here and which we can't. More...

This is just a reminder that there is a "Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2" chat tomorrow morning, from 10-11a.m (PT) on 4/14/05. Come join the product team in the MSDN Chat room, and send us your questions as we talk about all aspects of XPe SP2. See this MSDN page for details on the chats tomorrow.
To me, these chat sessions always feel like doing a theater production. We all have our reference...

What's the coolest app or driver package you've componentized?
I've done some AntiVirus programs (Kaspersky & FPROT) as proofs of concept before CA released their componentized version of eTrust. Some testers in our lab a couple years ago created some crude components for Unreal Tournament , Age of Kings and some other games. We use those for testing purposes in the lab on Fridays (ahem, yeah...

Looks like Novell is jumping on the Point of Sale bandwagon with a new offering, it's called Novell Linux Point of Service 9. If I'm reading the press release correctly it appears they're leveraging SUSE Enterprise Manager on the backend part of a package deal with their POS 9 platform on the client.
In case you missed it, back in October, our sister team ‘WEPOS’ (Windows Embedded for Point of Service...

If you’ve ever created a component in Component Designer you may have seen in the Advanced properties that there are two identifiers for the component, a VIGUID and a VSGUID. Most people are familiar with the concept of a GUID being a unique identifier for a database entry, or a file or an object. Why then are there two GUIDS for each component?
You can think of the VIGUID as being the “last” name...

This question came up in the Embedded newsgroup a while back, and since then I've been interested in finding the answer. Here's the scenario:
Say you have a number of computers that you want to boot from CD (via El Torito), and all of these computers need to have access to the same network. The solution would seem to be that you'd simply prepare an El-Torito CD , clone it for as many machines as...

David Berlind is an editor at ZDNET (links to his blog) and he’s posted a podcast interview of one of our XPe customers as part of David’s ‘IT Matters’ series. The podcast is a 20+ minute Q&A with Miles Wade and it’s provided me with a perspective of some of the pain points of our customers experience.
Miles is an XPe systems designer and delivers mission critical devices like this one for the...

As you're probably aware there's lots of goodness going into Longhorn , it's far from being a minor upgrade over XP. While we wait for the LH Beta I'll whet your appetite for information by pointing out some publicly discussed items that may seem intuitive but will have a dramatic impact on your PC experience.
For instance, while it isn't exactly new and has been *discussed* since Windows 2000,...

Stephen Shankland over at CNET has good article/interview, this one on “ Wind River’s Linux transformation ”. He interviews the relatively new CEO of Wind River Ken Klein. Ken appears to be saying the right things to try to get his company back on track and there’s lots for the Windows Embedded team to learn from here as well.
While I disagree with some of Ken’s viewpoints and he sprinkles in a...

Check out VIA’s latest form factor – ‘ Luke ’ - with the latest Via Eden proc.
This is apparently even smaller than the nano-ITX form factor, the miniaturization process is now taking them beyond board-level to silicon-level innovation. Of course it has on-board everything including a SATA-RAID controller.
I don’t have one of these in our lab yet, must remember to ask Lynda to get us some to...

Are you visiting Seattle for the WinHEC conference April 25-27?
Are you an XPe customer, partner or eMVP and interested in meeting with the product team outside of WinHEC one night?
If you answer yes to both of those, let’s get together when you’re in town. The Embedded team will not be at WinHEC itself, but if you’re an XPe customer, partner or eMVP for the product then we’d love to meet with...

I stumbled on this cool article/interview by John Dodge at EDN about the GE (GE Transportation) and the Electro-Motive Division unit of GM (General Motors) locomotives being pulled into the digital age with more sophisticated computer monitoring systems and how they’re being networked for easier communication/monitoring/control. For instance, some of the newer on-board systems use WiFi to transmit...